[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi][PATCH] firmware.inc: Fetch a zip instead of cloning a git repo

[Burton, Ross]

On 26 June 2015 at 05:16, Jon Szymaniak <jon.szymaniak at gmail.com> wrote:

> GitHub provides this ability to download repository contents at
> a specified changeset as a zip file. This is generally *much* quicker
> than fetching the entire git repository.
>

Github also can and will regenerate these tarballs whenever it feels like
it, so you'll need to periodically update the checksums.  Obviously as
existing developers will tend to have the tarballs cached locally, it can
be a while before this failure is reported back.

A better solution might be to add support for "depth" to the git fetcher,
so you can grab just the commit you are interested in instead of the entire
repository.

Ross
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